The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-23
HARDY DEMOCRACY,
LIVELY TIMES AT MooHHrlELp
ov"r the Election Of n Mayor for the Town
Combination Formed to Defeat CAPTAIN
Chiplry, but the Scheme fnlls-Ths
"Thistssn Kickers" Of Hardy Co.



MooRKrlRLp, W. Va. March 9Th,
electionof municipal officers for this plac,
took place on Saturday last, 10Th Inst
and resulted In the triumphant re.electio,
for Mayor Of Chipley, tho anti Camde,
member OF the Legislature. Capital,
Chipley has been Mayor OF the town To-
the past two or threo years, and has mad,
very good one. So several nights before
the election q meeting was.sheld to eelec
q ticket, and he was again named iol
Mayor, and ono or two Camden men pu,
upon tho ticket for Councilmen. 1t wa
not dreamed in this meeting that the Sen
a:orial contest would cut any figure in ou,
municipal election. However, late on 'tht
night before the election /. leaked out
that tho Camden followers, few though
they bsin this community, would make q
desperate and vigorous effort to defea,
Chipley in order 10 herald II all over the
State as a Camden vfctory-a defeat OIL
Chipley at his own home because Of his
opposition 10 Canden's reelection this
winter. Hence they got mp ticket bead.
cd for Mayor by Henry Hutten, a very
popular man and one OF The most pro.
nounced anti.Camden men in the town,
They combined agttnss Chipley, the
whisky interest Of the town, and aay sub.
ject or thing that would: make yotes
against him. Mr.. Hutten published a
card, az soon as he found It out, and said
be Was not candidate and wouli not
serve II elected. Nevertheless these des.
pesats allies OF the West Virginia ma.
nopoliatic ring persisted in voting for
hin. It WAS any thing to beat Chipley.
Their little game OF fraud was found out
on them In ample time to irustrate and
defeat them badly, and they are therefore
q sadly disappointed set. They did not
meet with rs much Buccass in this little
game as they did in passing their resolu.
tons at the meeting held here on the OH.
and which WAS composed OF Just l3 par.
ticipants, and called masa mestiue oitho
Democrats OF Hardy by the Register in an
editorial OF the 14th inst.
The reason Of their non.success in the
las! little game o! fraud was because thew
did not have the same chairman. II tho
chairman OF the meeting OF the OH could
have controlled the voters on the 10Th he
would have decided that none OF those
opposed to Camden had any right to vote.
He did this in the meeting Of the 9th
inst., called masa meeting OF the Demo.
Gratis Of Hardy by the Register, and conse.
quently that ruling reduced the partici.
pants at that meeting to just thirteen. The
namea Of the participants can be given
and de!y any man to name more than
thirteen. Never was there bolder at
tempt to palm of on the people of tbs
State a grosser fraud and cheat than that
meeting OF the 9th, which the Rtois,er ed.
itorially called a mass meeting. II thir.
teen people constitute mass meeting of
the Democrats OF Hardy then that was a
mass meeting. Every one OF the men
who were at that meeting were in the one
on the day belore-the first day OF the
March term Of the Circuit Court.
Ex-senator NanMe!er was in the meeting
held on tho first day Of Court, aud took
par: it, and opposed the resolutions
and tried to defeat them. He objected
most TO the resolution conlemning Cam.
den and ksnna for going to Charleston,
and said they had right to 10 there, but
the meeting thought otherwise aud passed
the resolution. Dr.. Carpenter was
IN the meeting Of the first day Of Court.
He then acknowledged that he was in
\ hopeless minority in this county, and
yet turned round on the next day and did
the very same thing and charged "the lo
kickess" with rebelling against the ma.
jority, and in ths meeting OF the 9Th in
slated that noae opposed to Camden could
vote, and the Chairman go ruled, The
proceedings OF thoae l3 "kickers" are pub
itshed in the State as q mass meeting, and
ex-senator HanMeter's letter to Senator
SommerviIe is again pub!ished as proof Of
il, and he is called the s.aunchest Demo.
crst in this county, whilst it is well
known that this same ex-senator is
kicker from kickersville." uehss bolted
more Democratic conventions than any
man in the State. 1t is the ensisst thing
tn the world for him to "kick." He
knows how to "kick," because he has had
lots Of experience in the business. You
will See by the last Examiner that the edi.
tor OF that paper. who was the secretary
Of the Registers mass meeting on the OH,
WAS forced to acknowledge the character
ol that meeting by sesie, Of questions
pu. 10 him.